While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of paleontologists found that the bones belong to a gigantic ancestor of today’s elephant.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
8 Oct. 2025
His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.
Successive hurricanes had gouged a hole in the Sunshine State, leaving several private carriers insolvent — and leaving hundreds of thousands of their customers with no choice but Citizens.
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Mario Ariza,
ProPublica,
15 Sep. 2025
But a low spot in the ocean, a channel gouged down into the sand on the ocean surface, or a break in a sandbar, can disrupt that flow and push water through the spot to create a current much more powerful than the surrounding flow.
After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering.
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